I beg to differ.

I’m absorbed mostly in work but also a little bit of 3, however the “something” is merely trying to stave off a heart attack and premature physical degradation in general, and not so much some grand lofty fitness goal.

And also 4. The amount of negativity that entered my brain through social media reached critical mass during the early stages of Covid and I axed pretty much all of it and never returned.

In any sane country receipt price is what you get back if the issue cant be solved, price matching in reverse isnt a thing.

Samsung allegedly not “being able” to resolve the issue is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as there drives are very much still being actively sold and, in fact, in stock.

Should samsung eat the cost of issuing a new disk for goodwill?

Samsung needs to honor their warranty by replacing a defective product with a functioning product.

And what cost would they be eating? They make products and cover these product under warranty. Replacing a percentage of these should have already been factored into the price. These drives are expensive to us now due to shortages, not because Samsung has suddenly incurred massive additional costs in fabricating them. They just make more money sending them elsewhere.

They say that in a paragraph where they attempt to limit their liability, not in the part where they inform you of their actual warranty policy.

But I guess we’ll find out in time where this ship ultimately runs onto land.

This is obviously more about dust Louis is kicking up than the claim itself.

But samsung has so much money that it is splashing up against the baseboards in their offices. There really is no reason for them to nickel and dime their customers like this, especially not where they are just straight up morally obliged to replace the product.

I sincerely hope this affects them more than it would’ve just honoring these warranty claims like they should in the first place.

I don’t think they will, because at some point we’ll return to the point where SSD’s just get cheaper over time and then Samsung has no interest in refunding you the full amount. This warranty is policy is this way exactly because drives used to lose value pretty quickly.

That seems quite damning to me. We ought to make sure this page is archived, in case the’ll try a gaslight us.

Edit: It is.

It also draws a bunch of negative attention to Samsung for this scummy move. Ideally more media pick this up.

That samsung doesn’t have a replacement drive in stock is a blatant lie. They just want to sell him one for the inflated price.

They never used to give you full refunds when these drives lost value over time. And if they did it wasn’t what you paid origionally. Now their price is ballooned and suddenly they are eager to do so.

It’s extremely clear what Samsung is doing here.

Edit/Addendum that i take no credit for:

Evidently it’s against their own warranty terms: https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/warranty/

In the event Samsung determines, in its sole discretion, that the Product suffers from defects in material or workmanship and does not substantially conform to the published specifications under normal use, for as long as You own the Product and during the limited warranty period, and subject to the conditions and exceptions stated in this Agreement, Samsung will, at its option, either: (1) repair or replace the Product with new or refurbished Product of equal or greater capacity and functionality; or (2) refund the then current market value of the Product at the time the warranty claim is made to Samsung if Samsung is unable to repair or replace the Product.

Removing all the emotion from this, the specific problem with these AI overviews is how Google presents them to you.

Everybody with some sense knows AI’s can excrete total hogwash and it’s answers need to be fact checked down to the most minute detail. Some people take what they get from AI’s as gospel anyway, but that is a them problem.

But Google a: calls these summaries, and b: presents them as the top search result. Both of these things come with a greater than normal degree of implied factuality.

Someone techincally minded will know it’s still AI an subject to the same scrutiny but the population at large simply does not, because they entered a search query in a google search box and aren’t willingly and deliberately talking to an AI.

Yeah, thanks for the tip. I’m at least in passing aware of these solutions, but my problems aren’t just concentrated around not owning a roof.

I also have detached garden house in my yard that I could technically quite easily have 4 or 6 solar panels on, but the problem I have at yard level is that I only have sun to where that garden house is till maybe 3pm on ideal days before it disappears behind the apartment building I live in. Any balcony attached panels would stop receiving direct sun after 1pm or so.

And even the sun we do have is greatly handicapped by copious amounts of surrounding vegetation. To the point I can’t even really get my lawn to grow properly.

It’s a lovely yard because it’s kind of like having private park in the middle of a big (for my country’s standards) city and because we are surrounded by big buildings it’s basicly also very quiet, but that does ofcourse come with it’s limitations.

All that logic is still a choice though. You could also just instruct the user to not press the button unless they’re inhaling and just actually have it be an on and of button. That’s how vapes used to work. Worst thing that could happen there is that you burn the wick, which is only a problem because it’s not serviceable.

What happened to vaping?

I specifically remember refillable vaping was exactly what you had when you vaped. You had the battery unit or a “mod” as it was called, on top of that you screwed a tank that had the coils, cotton and liquid, all that shit could be individually replaced and everybody had their own frankensteins combination of mod tank and other peripherals they liked to use.

Why did that stop being a thing in favor of these absurdly wasteful disposable pens?

There also has already been someone that made a home battery from batteries harvested from disposable vapes.

It is absolutely insane that these “disposable” vapes are legal.

It is wild to me that this wasn’t handled elsewhere to begin with. There is no way to at least somewhat guarantee a fair process with this massive potential for conflict of interest.

A road in of itself is definitely a public interest…

Where they should and should not be built is another discussion.

Serving the public interest is not already a prerequisite? Surely gov’t cannot arbitratily pull this card?

I might be talking out of my ass but i’m pretty sure using imminent domain is not only needed for matters of public interest but specifically needs to be backed by it when you want to use it.

Based on what? Spotify took what, 16 years to turn a profit?

Money stopped working like you expect it to a long time ago.

Ofcourse there are other metrics to considering yourself rich, some of which don’t necesarily have anything at all do do with money.

But that is not what those online grifters that constantly talk about crypto and having a huscle mean with being successful.

The amount of people that evidently don’t know what the “passive” in passive income is supposed to stand for is wild.

If you have do do something for it, it’s not passive, it’s just a job.

People that say you need a “huscle” “be a founder” or any other of that instagram entrepeneur type crap need to remember capitalism only works if a large part of the population is happy just doing some quasi menial job that pays just enough to have a somewhat interesting life.

If everybody is rich, nobody is rich.

What mostly makes this problematic is that there still aren’t enough public charging spots out in the wild to counter this handicap, people occupy those that are available for way too long and they charge quite a bit more for the kwh then you’d have to fork over at home. Especially when you can smart charge with variable rates and/or leverage solar panels.

I live in vertically built op neighbourhood from the 1950’s so charging on my own meter, much like having things like solar panels, won’t ever be a thing.

I do not believe this makes owning electric cars impossible persé, but the the public infrastructure is also lacking, and they won’t expand this without people buying more electric cars. But people aren’t buying electric cars because they can’t charge. Nobody here can charge at home, even if we do have plenty of people that have the income bracket to drive electric, so it has to come from public availablity.

Progress has been extremely slow. Don’t let my origional comment take away from the fact i’m 100 percent pro electric, I think it’s cool as hell, but there’s still plenty of situations where they are more than a little inconvenient. Having long range models here would at least reduce the frequency at which you’d need to charge.